Rev. Danny Fisher

The International Herald Tribune is reporting that Burma’s National League for Democracy, the political party of Nobel Peace laureate and Prime Minister-elect Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, has issued a statement “lashing out” at the United Nations on the heels of Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari’s visit to the country. The choicest sound-bite from the party’s statement is this: “No positive developments regarding Mr Gambari’s missions to call for the release of political prisoners, to start talks between the junta and democratic forces and to promote democratic process can be seen…”

Suu Kyi and the N.L.D. appear to have reached a breaking point with the U.N. Earlier this month, Suu Kyi recently refused to meet with Gambari during his visit to Burma. And her even more recent failure to pick-up food at her home, where she has spent 13 of the last 19 years under house arrest, has fueled speculation that she may have begun a hunger strike.